Always Do

Always Do

By Scott NicollEducationSelf-Improvement
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  • Ep. 21: Overthinking

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    • [ ] I spent my whole life overthinking and that led to indecision and that led to inaction. In that order.
    • [ ] You cannot be indecisive with the absence of thought - This is the main lesson I’ve learned from waking up at 5am: If you do not think, you cannot be indecisive and CAN take action.
    • [ ] OVERTHINKING CYCLE: start thinking - many good ideas - the world says to focus on one thing, so you try -but you’re stuck in the Paradox of Choice - then you get stuck Overthinking (Paralysis by Analysis) - Inaction - Procrastinate, Unproductive, Lost, Confused - mad at yourself (feel lazy, wasted potential) because your happiness is directly tied to you productivity - take a step back to get clarity - cycle begins again.
    • [ ] Solutions = Choose to be happy with little bits of productivity and progress. DON’T THINK.
    • [ ] OVERTHINKING-IDENTITY CYCLE: Big Ideas and try to pick just one (CUE: the new thing to learn and think about) - Enter the “Honeymoon” Phase (CRAVING: to learn more or figure out a new skill) - we invest our IDENTITY - get excited and tell people and that releases dopamine - slowly we get bored or have learned enough (RESPONSE: we learn but usually only until satisfied) - feel guilty it’s not our “calling”, lost - next time you avoid going “all-in” to avoid failure (ANTI-REWARD: avoidance keeps us safe from failure) - not going “all-in” become a self-fulfilling prophecy - shame - lose confidence - think our way out - try to find our “calling.
    • [ ] Solutions: Stop looking for ONE single calling. Do a whole bunch of things and combine them. Upgrade your skills. Or conformity also works and you can keep searching for that one thing.
    • [ ] ADDICTED TO OVERTHINKING CYCLE: think of ideas and imagine how it would be when completed (The BIG Ideas) - this manipulates dopamine even though our brains knows the difference between thinking and action, there is still an effect (and also creates THE ACTION GAP) - we like dopamine - “feels like” we are crushing life and have it all figured out (but only in our heads) - we tell people about our big plans - get more dopamine - “feels like” more progress - we continue to IMAGINE even more = THE ACTION GAP (here we land back in the OVERTHINKING CYCLE)
    • [ ] Solutions: Awareness, Do Something, Short 30-day trials, Do it for fun. WOOP Method. VULNERABILITY CYCLE Vulnerability - Share - Help Others - Receive Validation - Feel Good Enough - Repeat
    • [ ] THE SHAME CYCLE: Feel not good enough - strive for perfection - hit limiting beliefs - fears around being vulnerable and sharing - feel shame - repeat
      • 30 min
    • Ep. 20: Why You Need To Post Content

      “Everything you've ever wanted is sitting on the other side of fear.” - George Addair

      “Fear is good. Like self-doubt, fear is an indicator. Fear tells us what we have to do.Remember our rule of thumb: The more scared we are of a work or calling, the more sure we can be that we have to do it.Resistance is experienced as fear; the degree of fear equates to the strength of Resistance. Therefore the more fear we feel about a specific enterprise, the more certain we can be that that enterprise is important to us and to the growth of our soul. That's why we feel so much Resistance. If it meant nothing to us, there'd be no Resistance.”― Steven Pressfield, The War of Art


      Maybe it doesn’t mean that there is an actual “thing” or “career” waiting on the other side of fear, but instead it’s YOU on the other side of fear. The real you. The one that is full of confidence, smiling, happy. Maybe that is what is waiting on the other side of what scares you.


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      26 min
    • Ep. 19: Momentum Matters

      In a 2019 article for Behavioral Economics, Aline Holzwarth, a behavioral scientist, used Newton’s laws of motion to inform three laws of human behavior.²

      These three laws are:

      1. Behavior tends to follow the status quo unless it is acted upon by a decrease in friction or increase in fuel. (Change depends, then, on how much friction or fuel there is.)
      2. Behavior (B) is a function of the person (P) and their environment (E), or B=f(P,E). (The person matters, but so does the environment.)
      3. For every decision made, there are tradeoffs and the potential for unintended consequences. (Opportunity cost)


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        ARTICLE: https://www.behavioraleconomics.com/the-three-laws-of-human-behavior/

        24 min
      4. Ep. 18: The Food and Health Conspiracy

        I heard a someone say that there is a conspiracy to get humans fat and sick. I got so fired up about it that I couldn't sleep. Here I ramble on about it and why it isn't some grand conspiracy, but rather us, the consumer, super replicators, and capitalism.

        27 min
      5. Ep. 17: The 5-Day Water Fast

        A rundown of my 5-Day water fast: what it felt like, what to expect after, and why I did it.

        (This is not medical advice or a recommendation of any kind. It's just my experience.)

        31 min
      7. Ep. 15: How To Find Your Passion But Not Follow It

        Seriously, you’re awake 16 hours a day, what the fuck do you do with your time? You’re doing something, obviously. You’re talking about something. There’s some topic or activity or idea that dominates a significant amount of your free time, your conversations, your web browsing, and it dominates them without you consciously pursuing it or looking for it - Mark Manson

        Passion begets purpose. And to find passion you simply do shit that fascinates you and that you are curious about. Then you take one of the many possible passions that emerge and point that toward something meaningful and useful in the world - your purpose. That’s it. There is no complicated formula. You don’t need some course with some coach or guru to tell you what you want to do with your life. Guess who you need? Yep, just you.

        30 min
      8. Ep.14: The Exact Stages To Change Your Life

        No one is coming to save you. It’s only you.

        • The first 2 weeks is pretty easy. You don’t yet see the size of the mountain and you are excited anyways and have the energy. But you forgot one thing: you don’t have the habit yet. And even worse, whatever mindset you had before when you failed the last 1,000 times is still with you.
        • You don’t know yet that in order to change that mindset that has failed you so many times before, you need the mountain, and you need to conquer it.
        • The more times you’ve failed in the past, the harder it will be.
        • After a few weeks, you will come to the 1st turning point. This is the day that you really, truly don’t want to do anything. This is the most important day.
        • This will go on for a few weeks, until you get to what I truly thing is the most important moment: it’s the moment where you decide to stop even thinking about not doing the thing because you already know that you are going to do what’s right so stop wasting your breath.
          • 28 min
        • Ep. 13: It Doesn’t Matter How You Feel

          “You are never going to feel like starting” - Me

          Emotions are not a choice. Your behavior is. You cannot choose your emotions. Only your behavior.

          Emotions are not your choice. You don’t get to choose when or how you are going to feel in certain situations and at different times.

          You get to choose your behavior. So you might ask, “Scott, how do I choose consistent behavior for myself?” And the answer is, you 1) need awareness. You need to watch yourself and feel yourself behaving and doing life. 2) Once you see the emotion and how you are acting you then simply have a choice to make: accept it or change it. That’s it. Those are the only choices you have in any given moment about your behavior and actions.

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          21 min
        • Ep. 12: What Should You Eat?

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          Today's Episode is about health and I have a look at the claims made in The Plant Paradox:

          “You are what you eat, and what the things you are eating, ate” - Dr. Steven R. Gundry, M.D., The Plant Paradox

          This quote got me fired up!: “Today, everyone “knows” that brown rice is healthier than white rice, yet the four billion people who use rice as their staple grain in Asia have always stripped the hull off brown rice to make it white before they eat it. Stupid? No, very intelligent; the hull has the lectins and these cultures have been removing it for thousands of years. Although I once believed that any white grain was inferior to any brown (whole) grain, I have since changed my stance. Traditionally, the Chinese, Japanese, and other Asian people have not been plagued with obesity, heart disease, diabetes, and other conditions that are so common in the United States. I will go so far as to say that if you’re overweight, there’s a good chance that it’s because you’re a believer in the myth of “whole-grain goodness.” Distressingly, the renaissance of whole-grain products has reintroduced WGA and a host of other lectins back into our diet.”

          31 min

        About Always Do

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        The ALWAYS DO Podcast with me, Scott Nicoll, ventures into my life and the journey of the struggle: from a lost, stuck, overthinking drinker who took zero action to finding health, happiness, and all the answers in Always Doing What I Said I Would Do. Ramblings about all things a beginning entrepreneur might face, and how to stop thinking, just start and always do.